[Typo3] Why won't the dates show up in Mininews?

[Mike Kendall]

Hi All

I'm a bit of a Typo3 virgin, but it's all been working perfectly so far.

Now the structure of the site is almost entirely in place except for one tiny niggle...

The mininews... it sorts the stories by dates... uses my external CSS... displays either teaser or archive/search with links which take you to the main story...all good

BUT 

I can't get the dates that the stories were added to show up! 

all I get is:
<P class="tx-mininews-pi1-listrowField-datetime"></P>Here's what I have in the setup:

plugin.tx_mininews_pi1._CSS_DEFAULT_STYLE =
plugin.tx_mininews_pi1.listView.results_at_a_time = 5
plugin.tx_mininews_pi1.singleView.disableDateDisplay = 0
plugin.tx_mininews_pi1.listView.disableDateDisplay = 0
plugin.tx_mininews_pi1.listView.dateFormat = %m-%d-%y
plugin.tx_mininews_pi1.listView.dateTimeFormat = %m-%d-%y %H:%M

What have I done wrong?

Thanks in advance
Mike

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